Strategy & Soul Movement Center

Strategy & Soul Movement Center Strategy & Soul is a Movement Center powered by the Strategy Center. It is home to a Afrocentric Bookstore, Theater, and the Bus Riders Union Citywide office.

The Fight for the Soul of the Cities is an international vision for urban organizing—focusing on Los Angeles, and from there, to the major cities of the U.S. in solidarity with the cities and people of the Third World. It is the product of 24 years of organizing by the Labor/Community Strategy Center, 20 years of work by our Bus Riders Union, and seven years of work by our Community Rights Campaig

n. It builds on our vision for L.A. and the urban movement in Reconstructing Los Angeles from the Bottom Up, written in 1992, and Towards a Program of Resistance, written by our Program Demand Group in 2002. Our frontline frame: The Social Welfare State Not the Police State, the Environmental State not the Warfare State frame speaks to the world we want to build. It is also a direct challenge to our government’s war on the environment and working people and its enforcement of its agenda through the police, surveillance, and warfare state. We think the majority of people in the Black and Latino communities for sure, and a powerful force of all people in the United States either reject or want to reject the present agenda of joblessness, low-wage labor, intensified racial discrimination, violation of human rights, and ecological destruction. In 2008, a powerful majority thought they had voted for this agenda in the presidential elections. We are appalled and heartbroken by the conditions of our people but through conscious, organized, international resistance there is great hope. Our Framing Demands: Free the U.S. 2.5 million prisoners, No Cars in LA—and U.S. Cities; 5,000 zero emissions buses in LA, free public transportation, Amnesty and Open Borders for Immigrants, Fight for the Right to Protest and Organize and Stop U.S. Drone Attacks are big picture demands. If won, they can reverse the mass incarceration of Black and Latino communities, establish full immigrant rights as human rights, and create the most advanced ecological policy to slow down the most radical ecological destruction that is already upon us. It can offer solidarity and solace to people around the world that there are people in the United States who oppose the militarist and murderous international policies of our government. Our Key Campaigns create grassroots power on the ground in Black and Latino communities, all communities of color, and all working people. We bring these Frames and Framing Demands to life with Big Picture Campaigns–Ending the Truancy Tickets of Black and Latino Youth, opposing the militarization of the U.S. border, demanding 1 million hours of service and 1,000 buses now from the MTA, closing down Guantanamo, opposing the drones now. If this is you, your politics, your vision, or if our vision can help impact yours, we need your help. Please sign up and work with us.

05/30/2026
Saturdays at Strategy and Soul May 23rd 2026Saturdays @ Strategy and Soul Saturday, May 23, 2026 | 12pm - 4pm Strategy...
05/04/2026

Saturdays at Strategy and Soul May 23rd 2026

Saturdays @ Strategy and Soul Saturday, May 23, 2026 | 12pm - 4pm Strategy & soul Bookstore 3542 Martin Luther King Blvd. LA CA 90008 Kick back and connect in person during our next interation of Saturdays at Strategy and Soul on May 23rd, 2026. We hope you will join this community event in the bookstore once a month for discussions, open mics, drum circles, and Xi Gong and more as we work together for civil rights, Black liberation, climate justice, and a world without imperialist wars....

  By Channing  Posted May 4, 2026  In Strategy & Soul, Strategy and Soul Bookstore, The Labor Community Strategy Center, Upcoming Events Saturdays at Strategy and Soul May 23rd 20262026-05-042026-05-04https://thestrategycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/lcsc-logo-white.pngThe Labor Community ...

Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban Americaby: Leland T. Saito...
04/16/2026

Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America

by: Leland T. Saito...

by: Leland T. Saito

Join the Strategy & Soul Bookstore at the LA Times Festival of Books April 18th & 19th 2026
04/15/2026

Join the Strategy & Soul Bookstore at the LA Times Festival of Books April 18th & 19th 2026

  By Channing  Posted April 15, 2026  In Books By The Strategy Center, Strategy & Soul, Strategy and Soul Bookstore, The Labor Community Strategy Center, Upcoming Events Join the Strategy & Soul Bookstore at the LA Times Festival of Books April 18th & 19th 20262026-04-152026-04-15https://thestrat...

SAVE THE DATE! Join us on April 18th & 19th 2026 at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books More info coming later, but...
03/02/2026

SAVE THE DATE! Join us on April 18th & 19th 2026 at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
More info coming later, but save the date to come and hang at the Booth.

We hope to see you there

L.A. Times Festival of Books
April 18, 19, 2026 Booth #269
10am-5pm
USC Campus
3551 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089


NEW BOOK ALERT: Scorpio Man - Black Roses & Revolution. Order your copy today or pick up a copy on Saturday from
02/03/2026

NEW BOOK ALERT: Scorpio Man - Black Roses & Revolution. Order your copy today or pick up a copy on Saturday from

This is not just a poetry book. This is a full-bodied experience-a cinematic, soul-bearing, unapologetically Black journey told in rhythm and truth. In Scorpio Man: Black Roses and Revolution, Poet Larry Love delivers a fearless fusion of vulnerability and fire. Through the poetic lens of a Scorpio-...

We're happy to add Ebony Creole Whispers: Slices of Life - An'sestrel Evolution of Louisiana Black Creole Poets to the ...
02/03/2026

We're happy to add Ebony Creole Whispers: Slices of Life - An'sestrel Evolution of Louisiana Black Creole Poets to the collection. Stop by on Saturday to pick up your copy.

Ebony Creole Whispers is a book of poetry and poetic lines filled with love, life, and wisdom. Full of compassion, bumps in the road, ‘Swinging Blues’, and the art of balancing the mind through the Ideas of the ancient divine ways of Ma’at! Spoken in a unique ‘Creole Louisiana’ rhyming pat...

Abolish ICE Abolish DHS! From the Clinton Assault to Bush to Obama to Trump to Biden The Strategy Center renews its call...
01/30/2026

Abolish ICE Abolish DHS! From the Clinton Assault to Bush to Obama to Trump to Biden The Strategy Center renews its call for Open borders and Amnesty for all.

In solidarity with social movements in Minneapolis, the family and friends of Keith Porter Jr., and all those murdered and disappeared by ICE and DHS The Strategy Center renews its solidarity and call for open borders and amnesty. We too, will be on the frontlines with the rest of LA today as we all participate in one of the largest general strikes in the history of the U.S.—a well-deserved vote of no confidence in the federal government as it makes moves to open fascism that has been a bipartisan project of the U.S....

In solidarity with social movements in Minneapolis, the family and friends of Keith Porter Jr., and all those murdered and disappeared by ICE and DHS The Strategy Center renews its solidarity and call for open borders and amnesty. We too, will be on the frontlines with the rest of LA today as we all...

12/19/2025
A People’s History of the United Statesby Howard Zinn...
12/13/2025

A People’s History of the United States

by Howard Zinn...

by Howard Zinn

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